I'm a software engineer, not a politician. When I evaluate a system, I don't grade intentions — I measure output. So before November, let's measure what District 90's seat in the Florida House actually produced in 2026. Every number below comes from official Legislature records or named reporting, and every source is linked at the bottom. Find an error? Send it with a source and I'll fix it — publicly.
Rep. Rob Long won this seat in a special election on December 9, 2025, after the death of Rep. Joe Casello, and was sworn in ten days before bill filing closed. So the 2026 regular session is the whole record, and it's a short one. Here it is, straight from the official House sponsored-bill list and the bill histories on flsenate.gov:
One detail deserves a second look: HB 853, the mobile-home-park bill, died in the Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee — a panel Rep. Long himself sits on, per his official House member page. Even his own subcommittee never took up his own bill.
A bill he co-introduced also moved partway: HB 111, an antisemitism task force bill sponsored by Rep. Gottlieb with dozens of co-introducers, won a favorable Government Operations Subcommittee vote on January 13, 2026, then died in State Affairs.
So credit where it's owed: one bill in, one bill out, unanimously. But look at which one. HB 851 is a good, narrow, uncontroversial bill that nobody in either party had a reason to fight — the kind of measure that clears a supermajority chamber precisely because it doesn't ask the majority to give anything up. The bills that carried the district's harder problems — clean water, mobile home lot rents, tax deferrals for people at risk of losing their homes — never got a vote at all. That's the pattern I'm asking you to weigh: not effort, and not the quality of the ideas. Reach. Six of seven, and the six that died are the six that mattered most here.
Bills that die in committee never get a floor vote. But property-tax measures did reach the House floor in 2026, and the roll calls are public.
February 19, 2026. The House passed CS/CS/HJR 203 — a proposed constitutional amendment to phase out homestead property taxes other than school levies — by 80-30. The official roll call records Rep. Long as voting No. Opponents argued it would defund police, fire, and schools; that's a real debate, and I'll have it honestly. But the vote is the vote.
June 2, 2026. In special session, the House passed CS/HJR 1F — the Save Our Homes amendment now on your November ballot, raising the homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028 for non-school taxes — by 75-26, and the Senate followed 30-9 the same day. It was filed with the Secretary of State on June 16 and needs 60% to pass.
Fair notice of the counterargument: the measure is projected to cut local government revenue statewide by more than $8.4 billion a year. That's exactly why the implementing law matters — and why I want District 90 in the majority that writes it, delivering the relief without gutting local services.
None of this is mainly about one legislator's work ethic. It's structural, and the structure is arithmetic.
Republicans hold a supermajority in the Florida House — 83 Republicans to 34 Democrats, with three seats vacant as of August 2026, per the official House member roster. The majority decides which bills get heard in committee. That's the choke point. A minority member can file good bills all year; if the majority won't calendar them, they're dead on arrival. In 2026, six of District 90's seven filed bills were — and the one that survived was the one the majority had no reason to block.
And 2026 was rough even by Tallahassee standards. Of 1,896 bills filed, just 234 passed — about 12%. The Legislature adjourned March 13 without passing a budget, its one constitutional must-do, and returned in April to finish the job; coverage of the session described it as embarrassing, with Republican Sen. Don Gaetz faulting "a polluted chemistry that does not appear to allow people to work together." I won't spin that: as an engineer, I'd call it a failed sprint, and the majority owns its share. But the bottom line for our district is the one WUSF reported at session's end — the minority's affordability agenda was largely ignored.
You can be frustrated with that machine. I am. But the machine isn't on your ballot. What's on your ballot is where District 90's one seat sits inside it: in a minority filing bills that die unheard, or in the majority room where hearings are granted and the budget is written.
Specific, so you can hold me to it:
1. File a property-insurance relief package aimed at the litigation and fraud costs documented behind Florida's premiums — and push it from inside the majority that controls the calendar. 2. Help write the Save Our Homes implementing law if voters pass the amendment — full relief, without hollowing out police, fire, and local services. 3. Fund clean water through the budget, not through bills refiled to die. The goal of HB 855 is right; the vehicle failed. The budget is where a majority member actually delivers it. 4. Publish a plain-English scorecard of every vote I cast — including the unpopular ones — posted on this site within a week. 5. Hold quarterly town halls and monthly office hours, starting in the first 90 days.
That's the same engineer's standard I apply to the incumbent: measure output, not intentions.
Don't take my word for any of this. Every claim above traces to an official roll call, a bill history, or a named report — most take under a minute to verify.
Then remember how this seat was last decided: December's special election drew 15,141 ballots — 14.71% turnout. This November brings a far larger electorate and two decisions in one trip: the Save Our Homes amendment itself, and who holds this seat when its implementing law gets written.
I'm asking for that seat on the strength of what you just read — the record as it stands, and a checkable plan to replace it. Look at the math. Then vote November 3.
Every figure on this page is sourced. Find an error? Send me the source and I will fix it.
Updated: 2026-09-04